System demonstration of a InP WDM optical switching module with FPGA-based controller as basic block for scalable OPS nodes

S. Di Lucente, J. Luo, A. Rohit, S. Zou, K.A. Williams, H.J.S. Dorren, N. Calabretta

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Abstract

We demonstrate the functionality of an FPGA controlled 4x4 InP monolithically integrated WDM cross-connect (WDM-OXC) followed by wavelength converters. We provide evidences that the WDM-OXC can be employed as basic block for building a large port-count optical packet switch with highly distributed control and low switching latencies. The switch control is based on an FPGA board that decodes the packet labels, solves possible output packet contentions and properly drives the WDM-OXC. We show error free switching operation of four 40 Gb/s NRZ WDM channels with 4 dB penalty. The overall module switching time is around 25 ns.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter, 29-30 Nov 2012, Mons, Belgium
Place of PublicationPiscataway
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages89-92
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Event17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter - Mons, Belgium
Duration: 29 Nov 201230 Nov 2012
Conference number: 17
http://www.telecom.fpms.ac.be/IPS_symposium2012/

Conference

Conference17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityMons
Period29/11/1230/11/12
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